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The relationship between leadership styles and organizational performance: the role of intellectual capital utilization as mediator / Rashidah Kamarulzaman

Intellectual capital is an intangible resource that is increasingly regarded as an important tool to affect an organization’s performance. Previous studies on intellectual capital-organization performance relationship suffer from measurement problems as there is a reliance on financial secondary dat...

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Main Author: Kamarulzaman, Rashidah
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Language:English
Published: 2019
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spelling my.uitm.ir.857032023-11-24T03:25:12Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/85703/ The relationship between leadership styles and organizational performance: the role of intellectual capital utilization as mediator / Rashidah Kamarulzaman Kamarulzaman, Rashidah Intellectual capital is an intangible resource that is increasingly regarded as an important tool to affect an organization’s performance. Previous studies on intellectual capital-organization performance relationship suffer from measurement problems as there is a reliance on financial secondary data which are used as proxies to intellectual capital. This study departs from this by adopting a view that it is utilization of intellectual capital that matters rather than mere presence of it. The primary objective of this study is to examine the relationship between utilized intellectual capital components and organizations performance. The secondary objective is to examine the relationship between leadership styles and organizations performance. Finally, the third objective is to examine the mediation effect of intellectual capital components in the relationship between leadership styles and organizations performance. The leadership style use as antecedents in the study is transformational and transactional leadership style making it as one of the pioneering studies that incorporates leadership into the intellectual capital research area. The questionnaires distributed involves the entire population of 122 financial institutions in Malaysia listed with Bank Negara. However, the response received is 50 institutions resulting in a 47% response rate. The study provides an evidence that among the components of human, structural and relational capital, only structural capital is found to be significant towards organizational performance. In terms of leadership styles, transactional leadership style is found to be significant to both human capital-performance relationship and relational capital-performance relationship. When testing for mediation effect of intellectual capital and leadership style as antecedents in this nexus, the result is not significant. However, when tested separately leadership style is significant to intellectual capital as well as to organization performance. It can be assumed that leadership style is important in enhancing the role of intellectual capital towards organization. The major contribution of this study is that while it supports the nexus of intellectual capital-organization performance relationship, it provides evidence that a different model using utilized intellectual capital and non-financial data on performance provides a different finding compared to existing models of VAIC and other methods used in the intellectual capital research. This study represents an early study that intellectual capital is important and so is leadership that effectively affect performance. The study has implications to managers and policy makers in determining policies as well as which intellectual capital assets to invest in and what type of leadership style to use in order to improve an organization performance. 2019 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/85703/1/85703.pdf The relationship between leadership styles and organizational performance: the role of intellectual capital utilization as mediator / Rashidah Kamarulzaman. (2019) PhD thesis, thesis, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM).
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description Intellectual capital is an intangible resource that is increasingly regarded as an important tool to affect an organization’s performance. Previous studies on intellectual capital-organization performance relationship suffer from measurement problems as there is a reliance on financial secondary data which are used as proxies to intellectual capital. This study departs from this by adopting a view that it is utilization of intellectual capital that matters rather than mere presence of it. The primary objective of this study is to examine the relationship between utilized intellectual capital components and organizations performance. The secondary objective is to examine the relationship between leadership styles and organizations performance. Finally, the third objective is to examine the mediation effect of intellectual capital components in the relationship between leadership styles and organizations performance. The leadership style use as antecedents in the study is transformational and transactional leadership style making it as one of the pioneering studies that incorporates leadership into the intellectual capital research area. The questionnaires distributed involves the entire population of 122 financial institutions in Malaysia listed with Bank Negara. However, the response received is 50 institutions resulting in a 47% response rate. The study provides an evidence that among the components of human, structural and relational capital, only structural capital is found to be significant towards organizational performance. In terms of leadership styles, transactional leadership style is found to be significant to both human capital-performance relationship and relational capital-performance relationship. When testing for mediation effect of intellectual capital and leadership style as antecedents in this nexus, the result is not significant. However, when tested separately leadership style is significant to intellectual capital as well as to organization performance. It can be assumed that leadership style is important in enhancing the role of intellectual capital towards organization. The major contribution of this study is that while it supports the nexus of intellectual capital-organization performance relationship, it provides evidence that a different model using utilized intellectual capital and non-financial data on performance provides a different finding compared to existing models of VAIC and other methods used in the intellectual capital research. This study represents an early study that intellectual capital is important and so is leadership that effectively affect performance. The study has implications to managers and policy makers in determining policies as well as which intellectual capital assets to invest in and what type of leadership style to use in order to improve an organization performance.
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